This show is a big FU to science.
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shareI don't think we should just shut off creative thoughts and outside the box thinking, no matter how absurd it can be from time to time.
sharei would agree with you, overall i dont think the show adds any new science, but the main idea of Aliens being there and maybe influencing our ways is interesting.
Since i love Sci-fi movies, this is a nice way to get some creativity flowing.
But many times i just simply disagree with the stated evidence or theories on the show (and would tell that to my TV), which sometimes make me laugh.
I do this too during Through the Wormhole or other shows like this, so im not just biased towards this show or its content (just to clarify).
But as another poster also stated, the people on Ancient Aliens are a diverse bunch, but also contain a few charlatans, but you can easily pick them out and take their words with even more salt (keep tequila at hand for a drinking game), others are genuinely interested in the idea, while some are just lost (like David Childress) in their fantasies seeing what they want to see. *pats David on the back*
But they've also had Buzz Aldrin and a handful of scientists and historians (acknowledged ones) on the show.
What im trying to say is that id like to believe Aliens have influenced us, but i have yet to be convinced by anything shown in this show, and i find it unlikely that they ever will, but that doesnt mean that i should stop thinking about the possibility, keep digging and searching, it might not even answer the Alien question, maybe it will actually debunk all of it, so be it :) Same counts for religion by the way, since our ancestors had religion so integrated, i just want to know where these things and ideas really came from, or how we ended up and evolved into what we are now.
If Aliens didnt happen in the past, it could have a chance to happen in the future, or we might even become those Aliens on another planet.
But this show does a bad job at providing undeniable evidence, some things shown in Ancient Aliens are generally unexplained things, but in this show given the Alien spin, which is alright with me, out of the box thinking could give us an answer someday.
But they have made some bold claims before (like the zombies and nazis and Japanese swordmakers etc.), that seriously undermines any credit they could have built up and makes me doubt and think twice before associating myself with this show, i might have overlapping ideas and theories with some of the Ancient Alien theorists (as they like to refer to them like this), but for now, im not going to jump ship yet, as much as i'd like to join their spaceship theories, im sticking to the mothership.